Few would argue against the fact that Ethereum has been gifted with one of the most diverse and thoughtful communities ever gathered around any open source project. Fueled by what can only be described as impassioned determination, developers from all walks of life have risked their time and credibility to […]
Monthly Archives: August 2024
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Risks and Returns: Creating Success in Business and Life. 2024. Wilbur Ross. Skyhorse Publishing. President of Faulkner, Dawkins & Sullivan Securities Corporation at age 29. Head of investment banking at Rothschild, Inc. Founder of a private equity firm. Board president of The Dakota cooperative apartment building when resident John Lennon […]
Stiftung Ethereum, the Zug, Switzerland-based Ethereum Foundation —ethereum.org, is seeking to immediately fill the Executive Director position within the Foundation. The role involves defining and discharging the day-to-day business of the Foundation and leading the organization at the executive level. The successful candidate will have significant experience in corporate finance […]
For more on decentralized finance (DeFi), register for the Decentralized Finance for Investment Professionals online course from CFA Institute. “The future of assets is tokenized.” That’s what Mona El Isa, the founder and CEO of Avantgarde Finance, told the audience at the Alpha Summit by CFA Institute last month. “If […]
With Ethereum getting close to its first official launch with Frontier, we have spent the last week of February at our holon in Switzerland discussing what the future of the Ethereum Foundation is going to look like. Since the start of the project, one of our primary dreams has been […]
“When we’re talking about ESG in investment management, what are we talking about?” — George Serafeim That question prefaced an expert panel discussion at the Alpha Summit by CFA Institute last month. As Serafeim, the Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, explained it, capitalism has […]
One of the questions that has perhaps been central to my own research in blockchain technology is: ultimately, what is it even useful for? Why do we need blockchains for anything, what kinds of services should be run on blockchain-like architectures, and why specifically should services be run on blockchains […]
As the US economy reopens following the COVID-19-induced recession and bond yields finally tick up, how should investors shift their fixed-income portfolios to take advantage of the coming economic recovery? Most assume that as the United States emerges from recession, there is no better place for their debt allocation. But, in […]
Apibara: open-source data platform Apibara This project aims to add Ethereum data (Execution + Consensus Layer) to Apibara, an open-source data platform. Apibara allows developers and researchers to synchronize any onchain data to a target database or API. Currently, we provide support for PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Parquet, and webhooks. It is […]
Corporate Governance and Responsible Investment in Private Equity. 2021. Simon Witney. Cambridge University Press (International Corporate Law and Financial Market Regulation Series). Private equity as an investment class is older than many of those reading this review. It is a faster-growing part of the investment universe than publicly listed companies, […]
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